Comments on: Ask Yourself How You Should Get Me to Read Your Blog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:39:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: WordPress Blogger’s Survival Guide http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-848123 WordPress Blogger’s Survival Guide Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:29:30 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-848123 [...] Ask Yourself How You Should Get Me to Read Your Blog [...] [...] Ask Yourself How You Should Get Me to Read Your Blog [...]

]]> By: Nick http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-803932 Nick Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:07:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-803932 Hey, good post. I'm turned off by many bloggers who put way too many ads in the content of their posts, and when they have a black or really dark background - that terms a blog for me as being shit. Automatic music when you reach a post is annoying too! Hey, good post.

I’m turned off by many bloggers who put way too many ads in the content of their posts, and when they have a black or really dark background - that terms a blog for me as being shit.

Automatic music when you reach a post is annoying too!

]]> By: Weekly Digest: Floods, Harp Guitars, WordPress 2.4 News, and Improving Your Blog Tips « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-799208 Weekly Digest: Floods, Harp Guitars, WordPress 2.4 News, and Improving Your Blog Tips « Lorelle on WordPress Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:17:47 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-799208 [...] Ask Yourself How You Should Get Me to Read Your Blog asks an important question. What would it take to get me to read your blog? It also offers tips for what it takes to have readable and interesting content. [...] [...] Ask Yourself How You Should Get Me to Read Your Blog asks an important question. What would it take to get me to read your blog? It also offers tips for what it takes to have readable and interesting content. [...]

]]> By: Mohsin http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-789365 Mohsin Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:29:55 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-789365 </blockquote>Will this blog exist in 5 years?</blockquote> Yep, if I am not dead by that time. Will this blog exist in 5 years?

Yep, if I am not dead by that time.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-786154 Lorelle VanFossen Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:17:11 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-786154 @<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-786003" rel="nofollow">Kaj Rietberg</a>: Actually, I understand it very well and do a lot of translation of bloggers who comment and link to me who blog in different languages. I've lived in countries where I rarely heard English unless I talked to myself. :D I understand completely. It is my dream that soon, the biggest barrier in the world will be broken: <em>the language barrier</em>. It's coming soon, but not soon enough for me. @Kaj Rietberg:

Actually, I understand it very well and do a lot of translation of bloggers who comment and link to me who blog in different languages. I’ve lived in countries where I rarely heard English unless I talked to myself. :D I understand completely.

It is my dream that soon, the biggest barrier in the world will be broken: the language barrier. It’s coming soon, but not soon enough for me.

]]> By: Kaj Rietberg http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-786003 Kaj Rietberg Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:05:29 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-786003 The fun thing for me is that i give comments on English weblogs but people who will visit my weblog see that I write in Dutch. I don't think that you, Lorelle will understand that. Sometimes i ask myself why i comment on blogs not in my own languages, but i do it because i like to coment on a post i like and i want to see something about it. The fun thing for me is that i give comments on English weblogs but people who will visit my weblog see that I write in Dutch. I don’t think that you, Lorelle will understand that.
Sometimes i ask myself why i comment on blogs not in my own languages, but i do it because i like to coment on a post i like and i want to see something about it.

]]> By: Kathy http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-784766 Kathy Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:17:56 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-784766 Be true to yourself. Write what you're passionate about, and people will appreciate your authenticity. Life shouldn't be a jr. high popularity contest, especially with anonymous netizens. Be true to yourself. Write what you’re passionate about, and people will appreciate your authenticity.

Life shouldn’t be a jr. high popularity contest, especially with anonymous netizens.

]]> By: Ernie http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-784649 Ernie Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:46:51 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-784649 It has been my observation, over the past thirty-some-odd years, that shit has a tendency to take on a wide variety of shapes, colours, consistencies and smells. By that rationale virtualy any blog out there could be said to look like shit at one time or another. It has been my observation, over the past thirty-some-odd years, that shit has a tendency to take on a wide variety of shapes, colours, consistencies and smells. By that rationale virtualy any blog out there could be said to look like shit at one time or another.

]]> By: sbpoet http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-784571 sbpoet Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:53:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-784571 "Don't clutter it at all!" The current mantra. So I uncluttered. And then, in the subsequent weeks, my readers have requested, one by one, the return of almost everything I took off. And almost every time -- well, lots of the times -- I try to "write for my audience" the post sits there, lonely and unnoticed. So, I guess I need to just do what I do. And be glad it's not a business, for me; it's love. “Don’t clutter it at all!”

The current mantra. So I uncluttered.

And then, in the subsequent weeks, my readers have requested, one by one, the return of almost everything I took off.

And almost every time — well, lots of the times — I try to “write for my audience” the post sits there, lonely and unnoticed.

So, I guess I need to just do what I do.

And be glad it’s not a business, for me; it’s love.

]]> By: ian in hamburg http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-783817 ian in hamburg Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:29:50 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/ask-yourself-how-you-should-get-me-to-read-your-blog/#comment-783817 I would say that if someone comes along to my blog and they think it looks like shit or they don't like the content or they don't get my blog, there isn't a hell of a lot I can do about it. Same goes with real life. Some people you have an affinity for, others not. As for the Diggs and StumbleUpons of the world, the impression I get of them is of a ravenous, attention deficit disordered horde that clicks on your blog and moves on to the next. Sixty-nine minutes of fame is what you get with them. I appreciate far more the contact I have developed with readers over time. I would say that if someone comes along to my blog and they think it looks like shit or they don’t like the content or they don’t get my blog, there isn’t a hell of a lot I can do about it. Same goes with real life. Some people you have an affinity for, others not.

As for the Diggs and StumbleUpons of the world, the impression I get of them is of a ravenous, attention deficit disordered horde that clicks on your blog and moves on to the next. Sixty-nine minutes of fame is what you get with them. I appreciate far more the contact I have developed with readers over time.

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